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I love animals, knitting, gardening, clean air, chick peas, photography and tractors. Ancient feminist. She/Her. In Scotland. Was once a cat, or maybe a mouse? Instablock Covid-deniers and bigots. Capybaras forever!
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Among those leading the march are fascism scholar Timothy Snyder, lesbian Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, AFT president Randi Weingarten, and Indivisible’s Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin:

This is what democracy looks like

Dear America friends, this is what Scotland did when our equivalent to ICE tried to take away our friends and neighbours We freed them and then ran the uniformed goon squad out of town Do not back down. You’ll win if you stand firm Some reading if it’s required en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenmure...

Out here for Hossam

So this week we’ve had a man impersonating an ICE agent tie up a woman and steal $1000; a man impersonating a police officer assassinate a top Democratic politician & her husband (and shoot another Democrat & his wife); and a man impersonating a king hold a military parade for his birthday

I don’t know why (!) but I’m remembering how the US invited Iraqis to rebel against Saddam after Operation Desert Storm 1991 and then left them to be brutally crushed by the regime. Thousands died and millions were displaced.

Either the cops are so inept as to allow the gunman impersonating an officer to leave the scene of the assassination, or...

The point is to create a world in which the authoritarians can simultaneously inhabit a position of victim and abuser, creating an imagined threat of persecution and violence in order to persecute and carry out violence. This is how this always works. We cannot allow this to continue.

Nice.

Jesus. The juxtaposition of these two posts back to back is just...

There's a kind of male violence that is often misinterpreted as being in defense of women when it's actually in defense of who has the right to harm women (in a "we do; they don't" mode, see KKK, southern lynching, etc.)

There is only one side in American politics that consistently supports and endorses political violence. People need to stop being afraid to say so.

The last message shared on here by Minnesota House Speaker Emerita @melissahortman.bsky.social before her assassination this morning was one of solidarity with LGBTQIA+ Minnesotans.

Reminder: You don't actually need to even throw a brick at cops for cops to say you threw a brick at them

I’d like it if just once trans people were incorrect and someone we identified as a wrong’un turned out to be alright and it was a misunderstanding rather than the person’s a total bastard. It would be such a welcome nice surprise. Yet to see it though.

Please look out for each other today and remember, it’s WE the people. No kings. www.nokings.org

assassinations, handcuffing a senator at press conference, marines detaining a civilian, and a military parade for the president’s birthday. rough week for democracy.

Good Lord. 😟

Streeting exerting his power over women's bodies. 53 years I've been around, and not one has passed by without some bloke exerting power over my body. That includes the minimising of my experiences with menstruation and menopause. Fuck The Patriarchy, and that includes the women upholding it.

This is an astonishing and terrifying investigation into the catastrophic impact ChatGPT is having on the mental health of users. It’s bewildering why the UK government is forcing this untested, unregulated monster technology on the population. We are not an experiment futurism.com/chatgpt-ment...

These are the same people who will turn around and talk about the brain not fully developing until 25.

Who could have guessed it: Shabana Mahmood and Wes Streeting.

Sex Matters had their handprints all over that guidance, and the EHRC is ate up with conflicts of interest

Asshole worries "no-assholes" rule limiting overall experience at the No-Assholes Club. fortune.com/2025/06/12/b...

This man is my hero because he’s a member of the United States Air Force and is standing by his #Oath to the #Constitution! I’m hoping that since he has taken the lead others will follow because this is what a true American Soldier looks like! Remember your Oath to the Constitution

You’re going to hear as much about “reproductive extremism” as you did “trans rights activism” in the same places, from the same people, with the same backers, with the same goal.

"The HHS document says that another paper it cites found 'an increase in placental blood clotting in pregnant mothers who took the vaccine.' But the paper doesn't contain any reference to placental blood clots or to pregnant women." www.npr.org/2025/06/13/n...

Now thanks to the Supreme Court ruling, if this happens to you and one of you is trans then the homophobes have a loophole to try and evade the law

BREAKING: About 60 people, including 20 children, have been killed in an Israeli attack on a housing complex in the Iranian capital, according to Iranian state TV. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/4o4roe

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Maysara. Maysara wanted to be a content creator and to get married before this. He has since lost his home, income, injured his hand and his brother was martyred. He is trying to take care of his parents and his brother’s children.

Hella ironic from the administration of a man who fought tooth and nail to avoid serving in the military.

www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-aid... Rania's son is recovering from surgery. Her husband was shot in the foot at an "aid distribution site." They need $1,500 to evacuate. Verified by @mommunism.bsky.social 💕💸🍉 #Gaza #Palestine #FreePalestine #genocide

The Illinois secretary of state asked for an investigation into a suburban Chicago police department after learning that it violated state law by sharing data from automatic license-plate readers with a Texas sheriff seeking a woman who had an abortion. news.wttw.com/2025/0...

🚨 Gaza Has No Internet or Mobile Service. Israel Is Using the Blackout to Target Starving Civilians.

He sexually assaulted his sleeping wife for a decade. He took photos and shared them online. He took photos of other women. They won't riot over this.

In which an ostensibly progressive Jewish publication calls for the United States to invade Iran. We as American Jews must at some point recognize that we can be progressives or we can be Zionists, but we cannot be both. Zionism must yield to our common humanity. forward.com/opinion/7280...

My grandmother was a young pregnant Jewish woman alone on a train in Poland during WWII when a German soldier told her to get off at the next stop because there wouldn't be any soldiers waiting at the station. She survived because, in that moment, a soldier chose the right thing over obeying orders.

Israeli strikes kill at least 15 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-strikes-kill-least-15-palestinians-gaza-dawn

Thank you to Emily Chundy at the Big Issue for taking the time to speak with GWL Librarian Wendy Kirk about our Library of Sanctuary award. “As a library that’s been founded on equality, that’s really the heart of everything that we do…" www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

😭I am so frustrated I am dying of hunger and no one is helping me Yesterday I couldn't buy food because of the high prices and I don't have food and I asked you for help but no one helped me 😭 My family and I will die chuffed.org/project/allam

Seems important: "FBI ‘Escorted’ Him To Trump DHS Presser They Claim He Crashed" Padilla says he "didn’t “barge” into the presser, he was signed in and escorted, and was listening in the room for 10 minutes before he tried to ask a question" www.mediaite.com/media/news/s...